On May 23, 2005
Guy Nordenson (Architecture)
Keith Whittington (Politics)
and Thomas Christensen (Woodrow Wilson School) came for various discussions.
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On May 24, 2005
Oliver Avens (Dean of College)
came and later in the day
Laurel Harvey (Administration) came.
On May 27, we went out for sushi for dinner. Ben
Suzanne
and I
admired the mural
but really liked the sushi
itself as Jesse Goodman
was our waitress.
Saturday morning (May 28), as Ben
chose his clothes, Matt Traylor
appeared while Jane
was slowly getting up and then Annie Knickman
arrived to help make the cover for the Around 8 CD. Suzanne
gathered her things and we headed off to the P rade
where we stood with
Olga Troyanskya (Computer Science and LSIIG),
Emily Pronin (Psychology and Woodrow Wilson School),
and Kevin Wayne (Computer Science)
and were amused when
Clarence Rowley (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and '95) and
Naomi Leonard (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and '85)
passed by. On the way down the hill, I ran into
Beth Lind (Development and '95) with one of her classmates
and on the way back up we saw the remnants
of a wild party before heading off to Teresa's where this
was our dessert.
May 29 started with Suzanne
having her oatmeal before I ran into
Steven Healy and John Barbour
of Public Safety en route to the Baccalaureate.
On May 30, the board had it's Memorial Day meeting and I took a picture
of
Nancy Newman with her daughter. Later at the honorary degree dinner,
I took a picture of
Eva Gossman.
The main event was on May 31, so we started with a warmup picture
as I trained Sandra to take many of the pictures that followed. But first,
she posed with
Beatriz Colomina (Architecture) before helping the PADT people
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and maybe for the ceremony. Congratulations to
Michael Wood (English),
Beatriz Colomina (Architecture),
Joao Biehl (Anthropology) and
Bob Cava (Chemistry)
this years winners. I followed with pictures of Joao, his wife and son
and then Sandra took them outside
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As the assmbled continued, we thanked
Kathy Donnelly
for the food and assembled honorary degree winners and friends
as
Bill Russel
posed and then
Paul Rauhenbush (Religious Life) and
Yo-yo Ma posed. Meanwhile,
Sandie Bermann was getting reading to lead the parade though there were more
pictures
to be taken before I posed with
Anne d'Harnoncourt from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
and
Karin Trainer showed her joy at the event as
Brian McDonald and I chatted before my pictures with
Wole Soyinka and
Yo-yo Ma as BoB Rawson
pondered life post-trustee.
A few more pictures,
sent Sandra outside where she watched
Pablo Debenedetti (Chemical Engineering),
Hank Dobin (Dean of College), and
Thomas Leisten (Art and Archaeology) assemble as Anne Marie
got ready to pose with Kai
as Larry Peterson
and
Jeremy Kashdin (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
watched. The crowd
continued as
Joe Taylor, my predecessor, appeared in the crowd
and the students
and faculty
seemed ready to march even as Mary
made one last phone call and
Marcia Snowden (Assistant to the President) and
Raj Vinnakota (Trustee) posed as did
Laurel Harvey (Administration) getting ready for his first parade.
Now it was getting to be time for our crowd to assemble
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and I
had clashing colors as Shirley and Bob Rawson
appeared and I took this picture of
Sandra and Mary who make it all work as they took a picture of the 4 of us
Chris Eisgruber, Shirley Tilghman, Bob Rawson, amd David Dobkin
who seem responsible for the parade and get to march last. Then Mark B
appeared and Edwin
watched as the parade
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Jennifer Bolton
and
Jennifer Bolton,
Ann Halliday, and
Kathy Donnelly
who make it all happen breathed a sigh of relief.
The crowd moved
and
2 of the 3 deans --
Anne Marie Slaughter
and Maria Klawe
-- got ready to march.
There was still lots more time for photos
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Tom Breidenthal was ready to go.
We made our way in
and then Sandra took a break until I started awarding the PADT's
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Marcia Snowden
and
Susan Kovach
who helped the president get to and through this event and back to the medics
who made sure everyone survived. On the way to lunch, we ran into
Steve Oxman
and Bob and Judy Rawson -- the past and future leadership on the board.
Once at lunch,
Neta Bachall (Astrophysics) appeared and was recorded. Another
successful graduation event.
That afternoon, Alex Haldeman '03
stopped by to give me a picture fromt he Art of Science exhibition.
After the graduation, it was clearly time to celebrate, so we went on tour
Not to be outdone, the assistants
took their own trip to the beach.